Improvement in cooking-stoves



N. S. VEDDER.

Cooking Stove;

Patented Aug. 11, 1868.

ifiinesses 9M: via"? UNITED STATES NICHOLAS S. VEDDER,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 81,039, dated August 11, 1868.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NIcHoLAs S. VEDDER,

of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cooking-Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which my improvement appertains to fully understand and apply the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of thisspecification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view. Figs. 2 and 5 are detached views of part of my improvement, showing it when used as a six-boilerhole stove. Fig. 3 is a detached view of a removable supplementary boiler-hole plate. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section of Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

The nature of my invention consists, first, in the construction of a flue-chamber on what are called in the trade long-top cooking-stoves, by means of the top plate itself and a casting of peculiar form, in such a manner that by attaching the casting to the top plate of the stove a flue-chamber is formed, not only for a hot-water reservoir, but also for cooking purposes; secondly, in a detachable boiler-hole plate, when used with the said casting and flue-chamber for the purpose of cooking and not only heating; thirdly, in forming a stove pipe hole in the said casting in such a manner that it is in the rear of the hot-water reservoir, to avoid the necessity of leading the stove-pipe through the latter, and thereby gaining room in it, said Stovepipe hole being used whether the flue-chamber serves for heating the waterreservoir or for cooking purposes.

A in the drawings (see Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) represents the top plate of a cooking-stove, projecting rearward beyond the same, and provided with an opening, a, which forms an outlet for the products of combustion from the flue b. c is a casting, which in shape conforms to the shape of the rear of the top plate A, and with it forms a flue, B, through which the products of combustion from flue I) pass off into the stove-pipe hole H, formed on the casting, and thence into the stove-pipe. The top of the casting O is provided with an opening, into which fits either the hot-water reservoir E or the boiler-hole plate I), (see Figs. 2 and 3,) so as to make, in case plate 1) is used, a siXboiler-hole stove.

I have the advantage that my chimney-pipe need not go through the boiler, thus gaining more room in the latter.

Any common long-top stove can be easily provided with this part C, thus forming an additional space for cooking purposes.

I am well aware that a detachable flue-chamber, which is placed around the stove end of the chimney-pipe, has been patented by G. Tennie, April 14, 1868, and such I do distinctly disclaim, my flue-chamber being not detachable without destroying the functions of the stove; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The flue-chamber B, when formed by the top plate A of the stove and the part G substantially as herein shown, and for the purposes set forth.

2. The stove-pipe hole H, when formed on the part 0, in the rear of the opening covered by plate D, in combination with the flue-chamber B, substantially as herein described and shown.

3. The part O, when constructed and arranged in combination with the top plate A of a cooking-stove, either for a reservoir, E, or boiler-hole plate D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

NICHOLAS S. VEDDER.

Witnesses:

HIRAM J. MANN, GILBERT M. WILsoN. 

